The Deutschland class pocket battleships (Lutzow, Admiral Scheer and Graf Spee) were the first to have an all welded hull construction. Bismark followed.
Nothing other than that sets it apart. In fact as great of a ship as she was, the compartmentalization was terrible and overly spacious. Space without bulkheads fill with water, Water is heavy, too heavy and it wont float!
Still she was better than anything the British had available in Battleships and only The Yamato and some late war American class Battleships could match her.
So in essence I'm calling foul. Could be wrong though, Its happened before!
I found this last night and its cool as all hell.
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